Hillary Clinton took to Twitter to condemn the White House for even considering a Russian request to interview a former ambassador, calling it "deeply troubling."
At their summit earlier this week in Helsinki, President Donald Trump said Russian President Vladimir Putin's proposal to give special counsel Robert Mueller access to interviews of Russians he just indicted in exchange for questioning U.S. officials an "incredible offer."
One of those officials: Former U.S. ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul, a nemesis to the Kremlin.
White House press secretary Sarah Sanders on Wednesday did nothing to dampen the story, saying the president is considering the offer and will discuss with his national security team.
The fact that Trump didn't shut down Putin immediately - let alone actually mull the offer - has Clinton and observers on both sides apoplectic.
Even Trump's own State Department spokesman Heather Nauert called the idea "absolutely absurd."
"Most shocking and just lamentable I think is my real reaction when the White House was given the opportunity to categorically reject this moral equivalency between a legitimate indictment with lots of data and evidence to support it from Mr. Mueller, with a crazy, cockamamey scheme with no relation to facts whatsoever," McFaul said earlier Thursday.
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